mccSep 16, 2024

What's funny about Oracle is like, most tech companies, people probably feel *skeevy* about, but also most tech cos have done 1 thing you Like. Lots of people love their Apple products. You might be annoyed at Google right now but there was probably a time they made you happy in some way. Microsoft? People do like XBoxes. OpenAI has fans!

But NOBODY interacts with Oracle on purpose. Even coders don't *pick* Oracle. There's no brake on you just *resenting* Larry Ellison.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/omnipresent-ai-cameras-will-ensure-good-behavior-says-larry-ellison/

Omnipresent AI cameras will ensure good behavior, says Larry Ellison

We’re going to have supervision," says billionaire Oracle co-founder Ellison.

Ars Technica
Show threadtends Sep 16, 2024
@mcc there's Oracle VM VirtualBox. I don't understand how and why it continues to exist but I feel like I should stop talking before it stops existing
Show threadTimSep 16, 2024
@tendstofortytwo @mcc virtual box, like the jvm, came from their acquisition of Sun. I too am surprised in both cases they haven’t managed to screw them up, though I stopped following Java after Oracle got their hands on it and sued Google over trying to implement its APIs.
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@stiv @tendstofortytwo that's what I was thinking, yeah.
Sep 16, 2024 at 11:12pmTusky